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Not really a trick of Vim itself, but when using Vim from the terminal I find ctrl-z very useful to background Vim, type in a few shell commands for git or what
by thedjinn 8y ago
Not really a trick of Vim itself, but when using Vim from the terminal I find ctrl-z very useful to background Vim, type in a few shell commands for git or whatever and then use "fg" to hop back into Vim.
- hiyer 8y agovim 8 and neovim have pretty functional in-built terminals (:term). You can try that if you're using one of these.
- thedjinn 8y agoThat's more keystrokes. ;)
- sshine 8y agoNot if you bind it to ^Z. ;)
- majewsky 8y agoWell, you can't. The terminal translates Ctrl-Z into SIGTSTP before it even reaches vim. Alternative suggestion: nmap gz :term zsh<CR> Same number of keystrokes, and does not override any existing normal-mode command from what I can see.
- Pete_D 8y ago:nnoremap <C-z> :term<Return> works for me (tmux in urxvt). Ctrl-Z only gets converted to SIGTSTP if the terminal has ISIG set. For example, try `stty -isig; sleep 5` and try to suspend or interrupt the sleep command.
- vram22 8y agoOnly a few more keystrokes is: :sh ENTER or for more control over which shell, or to run a shell with any arguments, or even to run any command w/ or w/o args: :!bash :!bash -o vi :!bash some_script.sh :!some_command some args and after any of those, just press Ctrl-D or type exit ENTER to return to the vim session. Very fast and easy to do. I use it all the time.